LAMB Lottery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hopefully they won't post the kids' full names on the website like they did 2 years ago. Why LAMB insists on staying out of the exceedingly well-run MSDC site, I do not know.

Yes, I remember that. I had to call them and request my child's name be removed from the waitlist so that it wouldn't be visible on the website.

[Anonymous]

Did they announce when results would be available online?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

My sincerest sympathy for the nightmare you are probably experiencing as a parent. My concerns with the organizational skills and communication from the admin team at LAMB pre-dated the incident.

A train wreck analogy would have been more appropriate. The predator situation is being handled very poorly and parents' morale is very poor as a result. The plea deal the accused will likely receive (that's being orchestrated by his high power attorney as we speak) has furthered our distress. The school has been slow to respond, dishonest (they lied about a prior investigation) and sadly the robust open communication necessary to move things forward is happening on DCUM- not on the parent list-serve or at the school. Because many parents are considering pulling their kids out, you'll find many people cheerleading the school so that more people enroll. There's lots of the "admin. is fixing policies, etc... to make the school safe". If this is happening you won't hear about that at the school. There have been "workshops" set up, which I will not attend based upon the draconian process of the trainwreck town hall. So, if you consider enrolling you child (and I know many won't be deterred due to lack of choice in the city) do so with eyes wide open and readiness to go to bat for your child.

Another parent here, and this is not my experience at all. Yes, parents are hurt, but I think the administration's hands are tied in a lot of ways. They didn't lie to us but were instead very careful about the did and could say, and I think everyone is doing the best the can given the duration.

Their hands were not tied at all in 2015. And the school's lawyer clearly obfuscated the facts at the town hall meeting and suggested that the only concerns that would have been worth taking seriously would have had to come from a student? Several teachers raised concerns about his overly familiar manner with students before and after the incident that was investigated in 2015 and nothing changed.

I agree with the PP who said that things are now, finally, changing, and that LAMB is likely to be both well run after this. I also think there will be more new students admitted this cycle than there have been in years.

People with a high risk tolerance may be rewarded.

I heard that not every sibling will get a spot this year and no nonsiblings will be offered a spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they announce when results would be available online?

Monday. Just called.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone ever get in for PK4 as a nonsibling?

[Anonymous]

Students that are accepted and not waitlisted - will they hear something today via phone call or an email?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students that are accepted and not waitlisted - will they hear something today via phone call or an email?

If you call they will tell you to check the website Monday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone ever get in for PK4 as a nonsibling?

We got in as PK4 non siblings a few years ago. They had at least three spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone ever get in for PK4 as a nonsibling?

Yes but given that not all siblings might get in this year, I'm guessing no?

[Anonymous]

I went to the lottery today.
They had 32 spaces for new students
16 pk3 at south dakota, 11 pk3 at missouri campus
2 pk4 at south datota, 3 pk4 at missouri campus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to the lottery today.
They had 32 spaces for new students
16 pk3 at south dakota, 11 pk3 at missouri campus
2 pk4 at south datota, 3 pk4 at missouri campus

Is this after siblings had taken spots?

[Anonymous]

No Kindergarten spots were available?

[Anonymous]

Yes, those numbers were AFTER siblings had taken spots. They said there was one K spot reserved for a sibling (I didn't understand what that meant).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, those numbers were AFTER siblings had taken spots. They said there was one K spot reserved for a sibling (I didn't understand what that meant).

Maybe an older sibling of a younger lottery admit?

[Anonymous]

Ah, yes, that would make sense!